Orchestr Berg – Wurlitzer Night

Contemporary music performed by the BERG orchestra - the premiere concert and the opening of the 25th birthday season. The Polish pianist Piotr Orchechowski, also known as pianoooligan, will perform for the first time in the Czech Republic. This graduate Berklee College of Music and Montreaux Jazz Winner Solo Piano Competition will be presented at the Czech premiere of compositions that were created for him. His fingers will run after the piano of an extraordinary tool, an analog synthesizer Wurlitzer. The young pianist Pavol Rozenica, the laureate of most Czech and a number of foreign competitions, will also play it. The accompanying event will reveal interesting facts about analog synthesizers.

18:45 - Wurlitzer? Wurlitzer! (Introduction Milan Gurštar)

Program:

• Zygmunt Krauze: rondo naninana (Czech premiere)
• Henryk Górecki: concert for (harpsichord) Wurlitzer and strings

Piano

Pavol rozenica - Wurlitzer Piano

Orchestra Berg & Peter Vrábel - conductor

The Berg Orchestra is a Czech ensemble specialized in presentation of contemporary music. Since its inception, he ordered and introduced more than two hundred new works in the world premiere. In 2021, for more than half a century, it won the prestigious Prix Italia.